Therefore I endure all things for the elect's sakes,
that they may also obtain the salvation
which is in Christ Jesus
with eternal glory.
It is a faithful saying:
For if we be dead with him,
we shall also live with him: 2 Timothy 2:10-11 KJV
Where is the salvation that the Apostle Paul is describing? How can it be located? Does a person have to get into some sort of psychic trance and return to his or her pre-birth on this earth condition and have a vision of their eternal election before the foundation of the world? Has any sinful human ever brought back salvation credentials from the Library of the Living in pre-existing eternity? The books are not available for examination until the END of everything (Revelation 20:12). Any claim of knowing what was in them in advance cannot be proven biblically.
The elect are the servants* of God who choose to love and serve Him. Any and all humans are qualified to join Jesus in His death in order to gain the status of elect/servant that Jesus longs to bestow upon everyone. "...that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus" clearly points out that it was not imbedded in any other human individual before the foundation of the world. Not even in Adam. Salvation is IN Jesus and that salvation belongs to all who are found in Him when the books are opened. The calvinist formula tries to leap-frog over the requirement of death into their fantasy of a pre-determined life everlasting.
The end result of keeping the Law of God as a human is death. A perfect keeping of the law by the perfect human, Jesus, resulted in His death on the cross. When any of us is exposed to the law's requirements, we join satan in his ministry of lies and sin until we discover that we can turn to Jesus and cling to His saving death on the cross. We are encouraged by the Holy Spirit to exchange death for death. We are asked to turn our backs on reinventing reality and speaking the language of the original liar in order to obtain a death that makes us servants of God: true servants of one another who forsake the ministry of condemnation for the ministry of reconciliation.
There is good death for us at the cross of Jesus. Jesus has told us to tell others about this simple exchange; trust Him and let Him apply good death to our dead lives.
Come to Jesus.
Come to the Cross.
*Elect = Servant! Isaiah 41:8-9...Isaiah 42:1...Isaiah 43:10...Isaiah 44:1...Isaiah 45:4
that they may also obtain the salvation
which is in Christ Jesus
with eternal glory.
It is a faithful saying:
For if we be dead with him,
we shall also live with him: 2 Timothy 2:10-11 KJV
Where is the salvation that the Apostle Paul is describing? How can it be located? Does a person have to get into some sort of psychic trance and return to his or her pre-birth on this earth condition and have a vision of their eternal election before the foundation of the world? Has any sinful human ever brought back salvation credentials from the Library of the Living in pre-existing eternity? The books are not available for examination until the END of everything (Revelation 20:12). Any claim of knowing what was in them in advance cannot be proven biblically.
The elect are the servants* of God who choose to love and serve Him. Any and all humans are qualified to join Jesus in His death in order to gain the status of elect/servant that Jesus longs to bestow upon everyone. "...that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus" clearly points out that it was not imbedded in any other human individual before the foundation of the world. Not even in Adam. Salvation is IN Jesus and that salvation belongs to all who are found in Him when the books are opened. The calvinist formula tries to leap-frog over the requirement of death into their fantasy of a pre-determined life everlasting.
The end result of keeping the Law of God as a human is death. A perfect keeping of the law by the perfect human, Jesus, resulted in His death on the cross. When any of us is exposed to the law's requirements, we join satan in his ministry of lies and sin until we discover that we can turn to Jesus and cling to His saving death on the cross. We are encouraged by the Holy Spirit to exchange death for death. We are asked to turn our backs on reinventing reality and speaking the language of the original liar in order to obtain a death that makes us servants of God: true servants of one another who forsake the ministry of condemnation for the ministry of reconciliation.
There is good death for us at the cross of Jesus. Jesus has told us to tell others about this simple exchange; trust Him and let Him apply good death to our dead lives.
Come to Jesus.
Come to the Cross.
*Elect = Servant! Isaiah 41:8-9...Isaiah 42:1...Isaiah 43:10...Isaiah 44:1...Isaiah 45:4
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